Batrachedra pinicolella

Batrachedra pinicolella (Zeller, 1839)

pine cosmet

mine

The larva lives in a silken tube, covered with fragments of bark and lichen on the bark of the older part of a branch. From this tube the larva mines the basal half of a number of leaves. The larva moults in the tube, and pupates in a side branch of it.